A North Carolina woman made one deputy's life a little easier when she approached him with her rock of crack cocaine. Eloise D. Reaves, 50, walked up to the Putnam County sheriff's deputy in a convenience store and told him a man sold her bad crack that contained wax and cocaine.

A Croatian man miraculously survived a 700 foot fall down the side of a canyon after he lost control of his car and plunged into a ravine. Luckily for Cedo Jerbic, his car landed on a tree and he escaped the incident with only a few bruised ribs. He said he lost control of his Skoda Octavia while cruising along the Velebit mountain in Croatia.

Police in the Austin suburb of Round Rock spent three hours looking for the caller who had made 49 emergency calls from an unregistered, deactivated cell phone. The search ended up in an elementary school where they found that a seven-year-old boy was calling from his classroom just for kicks. The investigators started the search for the caller with two clues - background giggles heard by the dispatchers and the two-mile-wide calling zone they traced the calls to. The crank-caller tied up the emergency lines for three hours.

A museum exhibit featuring several American flags that had been deep-fried has been removed over concerns that the art could spark a controversy. The Customs House Museum exhibit titled "The Fat Is in the Fire," featured three U. S. flags imprinted with phrases such as "Poor people are obese because they eat poorly" and more than 40 smaller flags fried in peanut oil, egg batter, flour and black pepper. Art student William Gentry said his work was inspired by the prevailing obesity problem in America and that he deep-fried the flag for his concern about America and America's health.

The world championship rock, paper, scissors (RPS) tournament is set for the weekend of November 18 in Toronto. There will be 500 top competitors from all over the world in Toronto to compete in the RPS tournament. This may seem silly to some, but the grand prize may not. The winner will receive $10,000 Canadian currency, which is equivalent to $8,835 US dollars, along with the RPS world championship title.